courses at Mt. Hamilton. Application for admission to graduate courses at the Observatory may be made at any time to the Recorder of the University at Berkeley; and students will be admitted on the recommendation of the Director, approved by the President of the University. Admission is ordinarily granted to graduates of the University of California, and also to graduates of other colleges and scientific schools of good standing who present satisfactory evidence of character and qualifications. Other persons of suitable age and attainments may also be admitted. Students at the Lick Observatory may either be: (a) Candidates for one of the higher degrees of the University, or (b) Special students. The higher degrees offered are Master of Arts, Master of Science, and Doctor of Philosophy. The conditions upon which they are granted are given in this Register, pages 106 and 107, except that a residence at Mt. Hamilton* is required of all candidates for a Master's degree of at least four months, and of all candidates for a Doctor's degree of at least eight months. It is expected that students will choose their periods of residence at the Observatory in the months June to November. In certain cases the requirement of Latin of candidates for the Doctor's degree may be remitted by the proper authority. In all cases a good reading knowledge of French and German will be required of such candidates. Particular attention is called to the fact that the higher degrees of the University are not given for mere faithfulness in the performance of allotted tasks, but that "power to do original work" (as shown in a thesis to be submitted before final examination, and in other ways) will be required of all candidates. QUARTERS FOR STUDENTS. Comfortable quarters (unfurnished) are allotted to all students at the Observatory. A kitchen and dining-room (partly furnished) are also provided for the common use of students, who must make their own arrangements for board and service. The cost per month to each student need not exceed $30. No charges or fees of any sort for instruction are required from students in the University. All injuries to instruments or apparatus must be made good at the student's expense, and students are expected to provide the larger part of the chemicals used in their practice of photography. Each student should bring with him the furniture of his bed, etc., and should also provide himself with text-books which are constantly wanted, as YOUNG'S General Astronomy, CAMPBELL's Practical Astronomy, BRUENNOW's Lehrbuch der Sphaerischen Astronomie or CHAUVENET's Spherical and Practical Astronomy, OPPOLZER'S Bahnbestimmung or WATSON's Theoretical Astronomy, HUSSEY'S Logarithmic Tables (or any other good five-place tables), CRELLE'S Rechentafeln, etc. Intending students will do well to communicate with the Director of the Observatory before making their formal applications for admission to the Recorder. The Post Office address is Mt. Hamilton, Santa Clara County, California. *Residence at Mt. Hamilton is "residence at the University." SPECIAL STUDENTS. Special students are received (usually during the favorable observing weather, June to November), and every facility, consistent with the scientific work of the establishment, will be given to them. They will be required to follow out some line of work, to the satisfaction of the Director, and they will usually be assigned as assistants to some one of the Astronomers. HEARST FELLOWSHIPS IN ASTRONOMY. Mrs. PHEBE HEARST has provided a fund to be used in aid of scientific work at the Lick Observatory. A portion of this fund may be set aside for the purpose of defraying a part of the expenses of such advanced students as may be appointed to be Hearst Fellows in Astronomy by the Board of Regents on the recommendation of the President of the University and of the Director of the Observatory. Such recommendations will not be made except of students who have already made decided progress in their work, and candidates for the higher degrees of the University will be preferred in general. ADMISSION OF VISITORS TO THE OBSERVATORY. The Observatory buildings will be open to visitors during office hours every day in the year. For the present, visitors will be permitted to look through the great telescope every Saturday night, between the hours of 7 and 10, and at that time only. Whenever the work of the Observatory will admit of it, other telescopes will also be put at the disposition of visitors on Saturdays, between the same hours. The Astronomical Society of the Pacific holds its summer meetings in the library of the Lick Observatory. For Students in the Lick Observatory, see Catalogue of Students, and Summary of Students. EXTENSION COURSES. With a view to the extension of the advantages of the University to teachers* and other persons whose engagements will not permit them to go to Berkeley, courses of instruction will be offered during the year 1892-93 in San Francisco and in other places. Persons who offer to do systematic work in the Extension Courses, and to take examinations in them, will be enrolled as Attendants upon Extension Courses. Attendants who pass satisfactory examinations will be entitled to receive, from the University, Certificates of Record of the work done, which may be accredited to them, upon their scholarship records, if they subsequently become students of the University. Visitors may be admitted to Extension Courses at the discretion of the professors in charge. Persons desiring to enroll themselves for these courses are requested to communicate either with the professors in charge, or with the Recorder. During 1892-93, Extension Courses are offered as follows: English. Course in the Ancient Classical and the Medieval Dramas. Hall of the Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, Thursday evenings, at 8 o'clock. Mr. ARMES. English. Paradise Lost. The class, under the direction of Assistant Professor LANGE, will begin work about February 1st, in Oakland, at an hour and place to be announced. Mathematics. Course in the Differential and Integral Calculus. Boys' High School, San Francisco, Saturday mornings, at 10:30 o'clock. Professor STRINGHAM. Pedagogy. Course in the Herbartian Pedagogy. Commercial School Building, Powell Street, San Francisco, Tuesday afternoons, at 3:45 o'clock. Associate Professor BROWN. Astronomy. Course in General Astronomy. Chabot Observatory, corner Eleventh and Jefferson Streets, Oakland, Friday evenings, at 8 o'clock. Mr. LEUSCHNER. Geology. Ice as a geological agent, with a particular consideration of the Ice Age in California. A course of six lectures, by Professor JOSEPH LE CONTE. The Course begins Monday evening, January 2d, at the Unitarian Church, corner of Third and Hill Streets, Los Angeles. *See also Pedagogics, and Courses designed for teachers, under Philosophy, History and Political Science, Greek, Latin, English, Mathematics. |